(7:29 min) (10 of 17) Exciting and scary situations
Teaching in Ft. Yukon, went to Fairbanks then headed back with heavy load. Ft. Yukon ice fogged in, headed back to Fairbanks, White Mountains were fogged in too, had to climb over top. ...
Caption from supporting documents: "R.C.M.P. Patrol departing for Ft. McPherson. Left to right: Constable Doake, David Njoole, Sgt. Dempster, Art Lee, McDonald, Albert Ross."
Garry Njootli has sent a correction David Njoole should be spelled...
Includes legend. Relief shown by hachures. Valdez to Ft. Egbert: "...made under instructions by J.M. Clapp, Asst. Engr., June-Sept. 1904." Yukon River to Coldfoot: "…made under instructions by O.A. Piper, Surveyor, June-Sept. 1904." Inset:...
Title taken from caption. "Pete Nelson" - An Old Sourdough Ft. Yukon Trapper. Trapped Black River." Note on the back of the photograph reads: Well known in Ft Yukon, picture taken by Jean Tetinek." (Folder 8)
Title taken from notes provided by Peter Haase, September 22, 2004. "On the Caribou Highway in lower British Columbia, Canada. Pat Chamay and I took turns riding with Rich White in his cab and up here in the Nash Rambler which sat over the cab...
Title from photograph. Verso: Sept. 1924 a charter flight with engineer Ingram & Secretary Sandy Sanders on Attempted flight to Kantishna. Two days tried to get them in there but low ceiling persisted and I landed them here on a 300 ft. bar on...
Title taken from caption. "Ft. St. John B.C. (British Columbia), September 1942." Cataloguer's note: The B.C. cafe can be spotted at the right hand corner of the picture.
Title taken from caption. "Mile post 168. north Ft. St. John." Cataloguer's note: A man is standing leaning on a sign post that reads: "Suicide Hill, 500 ft ahead, Prepare to meet thy God."
Title from attached caption. Photograph of a soldier and a civilian helping a refugee child off a bus following the 1964 earthquake and resulting tsunami.
Full caption reads: " Evacuees Arrive In Fairbanks. Citizens of Valdez arrived by bus...
Title from caption. Photograph of tripod telegraph poles across a lake. Caption reads: Tripods made of 25 ft poles across small lake five feet in depth near 85. Built on the ice and settled as ice melted in spring. But little aligning found...
Title from accompanying notes "27 March. Milepost 0 on the Alcan; Hat, Hiro & Pete." Beginning of Alaska-Canada Highway at Dawson Creek. Three men stand under the milepost sign. Three flags are on the milepost, and roadside businesses and their...
Title from caption. The caption (lower left) reads "[Ft. Gibbon] Alaska." A long row of log cabins with a church above them on a hillside. There is a working log pile on the right, and someone's laundry is hanging on the porch of the first...
Title taken from verso. Photographer Christine M. McClain receiving an award from Lt. Col. Gordon D. Gray, in front of an American flag. Also from verso: "ARCSO-2116-7/AR-59 Ft. Richardson, Alaska Lt. Col. Gordon D. Gray, Deputy Commander ACS,...
Title taken from front. View of snow covered Shishaldin Volcano (9387 ft. high) on Unimak Island in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. Also from front: "Copyright, 1910 by J.E. Thwaites." Photographer's number P35. 1910. Photographer: J.E. Thwaites.
Interior shot. Two servicemen stand in the middle of the photography lab at Ft. Richardson. Sign on the door reads "Film ?". Original photograph size: 6 3/4 X 9 1/4 inches.